Shifting-rail for buggy-seats



(No Model.)

S. GOTHERMON.

1emr-"flueRAIL.Pole BUGGY SEATS. A No. 326,019. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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UNITED STAT-Es PATENT OFFICE.'

SIMON COTHERMON, OF CONSTANTINE, MICHIGAN.

SHlFTlNG-RAI-L FOR BUGGY-SETS.

@IFESIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,019, datedSeptember 8, 1885. Application filed J' une 20, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Beit known that I, SIMON CoTHERMoN, of Constantine, in the county of St.Joseph and State of Michigan, have invented a new and usefulImprovementin Shifting-Rails for Buggy-Seats; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full and exact description of the same,referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

The objects of this improvement are greater simplicity and economy inthe construction of parts employed for and greater .convenience inattaching shifting-rails to and detaching the same from buggy-seats.These results are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the drawingsherewith iiled as part hereof,i n which the same letters of referencedenote the same parts in the dierent views.

Figure l is a rear elevation of a buggyseat provided wit-h my improvedmeans for attaching and detaching theAshifting-rail. Fig. 2 is a frontview of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a sectional viewtaken on the line x x of Fig. 3.

A is the buggy-seat, provided with a series of seat-irons, a, tiXedthereto in the usual manner. The seat-irons are provided at their outervends with integral circularrheads a', having perforations for thereception of screw-threaded shanks b2 of lazy-back irons B B,wliich aresecured in the position shown by means of the nuts b and screws, asshown at b3, Fig. 2.

D D are lazyback irons having screwthreaded Shanks d and integralextensions or `prongs D', provided with screw-threaded shanks d. Thelazy-back irons D are secured to the lazy-back O in the ordinary manner,as shown at d4, and to the seat-irons a a ct a by nuts d2 d, as fullyshown in Fig. 3.

E is the shifting-rai l,having one straight and E E2 are integralextensions of the rail E, forming the props for the top or cover. (Notshown.)

The lazy-back irons B B and D D D D areiiled or otherwise cut away toform dovetail projections, which fit over the convexed side of' theshifting-rail E, as shown at b b, Fig. l, b c c', Fig.`8, and more fullyshown at Ao, Fig. 4. Thecircular heads a of the seat-irons a are filedor otherwise cut away to form dovetail projections a2, which also titover the conv handles for use in enteringthevehicle to which themechanism is attached.

By means of the nuts d2 dit on the screwthreaded Shanks of the lazy-backirons D D and the nuts b on the screw-threaded shanks of the irons B theshifting-rail E is irmly clutched between the dovetail projections b cc' of the lazy-back irons and the dovetail proiec'tions a2 of theseat-irons a. By loosening the nuts d, d3, and bsufticiently to clearthe dovetail projections b of the irons B from the railA E the lattermay be removed from the seat without dctaching and replacing thelazy-back.

I am aware that by reason of the patent to Fuller, September 24, 1878,the within-de scribed mechanism is not broadly new; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.The shifting-rail E, having one convexed and one perpendicular sidemeeting in sharp edges, in combination with the seat-irons a,

having circular heads a,.provided withdovetailed recesses for fittingover the lower edge of the shifting-rail, the lazy-back irons B,provided with dovetailed recesses for fitting over the upper edge of theshifting-rail, and the lazy back irons D D', provided wit-h dovetailedrecesses for fitting over the upper edge of the shifting-rail, andarranged to secure theposition of the same, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIMON COTHERMON.

Witnesses: Y THOMAS HARRISON, THOMAS S. BATLEY.

